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Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject.
A good review of the history Scotland and its never ending struggle with England. The way that Scotland lost its independency in 1705 is well described and gives a better insight in the political evolutions nowadays between Scotland and England.